The company was founded by Christopher Steele, who created a dossier in 2016 that contained rumours and uncorroborated allegations that caused a political storm just before Trump’s inauguration.
A UK judge has thrown out a lawsuit by former U.S. President Donald Trump accusing a former British spy of making “shocking and scandalous claims” that were false and harmed his reputation.
According to the Washington Post, Judge Karen Steyn on Thursday said the case Trump filed against Orbis Business Intelligence should not go to trial.
The company was founded by Christopher Steele, who created a dossier in 2016 that contained rumours and uncorroborated allegations that caused a political storm just before Trump’s inauguration.
Steele, who once ran the Russia desk for Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, was paid by Democrats to compile research that included salacious allegations that Russians could potentially use to blackmail Trump.
Trump said the dossier was fake news and a political witch-hunt.
In a written witness statement, Trump said that the allegations had not been disproven and that they were “wholly untrue.”
Trump denied engaging in “perverted sexual behavior including the hiring of prostitutes ... in the presidential suite of a hotel in Moscow”.
He also denied involvement in “sex parties” in St. Petersburg or bribing, coercing or silencing witnesses.
The former president sought damages from Orbis for allegedly violating British data protection laws.
The firm sought to have the case thrown out.